Nurses can help drive strategies that affect cost and quality "because they deal with it every day," says an RN and veteran member of multiple boards. Yet nurses—especially women—are grossly underrepresented on hospital boards.
Nurse leaders and other hospital and health system executives can take several lessons from a regional grocery chain's unusual and unresolved management nightmare....
The co-director of a nursing scholars program says doctoral degrees can help nurses become visionary thinkers, researchers, policy makers, and leaders....
A nurse CEO describes the "good investment" her hospital has made in a 20-year-old program that sends specially trained nurses into the homes of low-income women during pregnancy and early childhood.
The Four Habits model, used to improve patient-physician communication, can also prepare nurses to deliver relationship-centered care more effectively, study data shows.
For the first time, the White House has honored innovative nurses who invent, hack, or "make," devices and workarounds that fix healthcare problems and improve patient care....
